MyScript Calculator is essentially the magical oracle of mathematics many of us always wished we had in school. If you're still in school, well, you're probably using the hell out of this app. Either way, good news – MyScript Calculator just got an update with a ton of new stuff.

Here's the changelog from v1.2.

New graphical user interface

Calculation on demand: automatic calculation can be disabled and replaced by a "Calculate" button

New operators (n-root, hyperbolic functions)

Rounding option: choose between rounded and truncated result

All you have to do is doodle in the problem, and MyScript Calculator solves it instantly. This version adds an optional calculate button to replace the automatic calculation, which could be a little troublesome as you try to write in a longer equation. The look and feel of the app has been updated too. The old interface wasn't terrible, but you can check out some screens of it below for comparison.

It probably works better than you would think, and it's worth checking out just for fun. This app is, shockingly, free and has no in-app purchases.

I love it. I used it a lot when studying statistics (my major is social sciences). I do have one minor gripe with it, though; I'm so used to using x (and y and z, etc) as the variable that I kept forgetting to write ? for the variable. I wish the app had an option for that.

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But then how would you reliably scribble multiplication? That is the reason, I think. I, too, sometimes write x instead of ?.

I know; maybe because I'm Brazilian and here we use commas for dividers (123,45 instead of 123.45) and then I think of dots as multiplication signs more easily... Then ? => x, x => ".", . => ",". But I understand that having three substitutions done to enable an option is too much of a hassle =P

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I use commas for decimals too, like most of the world. But the difference between a high dot (·) and a comma is really hard to detect in Myscript: a dot will often become a short line unless you're very careful. Another standard sign of multiplication in mathematics is the asterisk (*). So what I was saying was that neither of those is easy to scribble reliably and in a way that can be distinguished from scratching or a comma, I think. So that's probably why we have to use x.

Earlier today I needed to figure out how large I could print a 9000x9000px image at a certain dpi, and did the calc using the CM calculator (sqrt(9000^2+9000^2)/300), and just did the same calc using the app and it's sooo much nicer.

Would like to see a few more functions added, though. I use radians2degrees (and deg2rad) all the time for basic trig. Sometimes easier to use a func than remembering to multiply by 180/pi or pi/180